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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/platform.c | 47 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/platform_device.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c index e621dade7ea..9e60f7c739c 100644 --- a/drivers/base/platform.c +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c @@ -391,6 +391,53 @@ error: } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_register_simple); +/** + * platform_device_register_data + * @parent: parent device for the device we're adding + * @name: base name of the device we're adding + * @id: instance id + * @data: platform specific data for this platform device + * @size: size of platform specific data + * + * This function creates a simple platform device that requires minimal + * resource and memory management. Canned release function freeing memory + * allocated for the device allows drivers using such devices to be + * unloaded without waiting for the last reference to the device to be + * dropped. + */ +struct platform_device *platform_device_register_data( + struct device *parent, + const char *name, int id, + const void *data, size_t size) +{ + struct platform_device *pdev; + int retval; + + pdev = platform_device_alloc(name, id); + if (!pdev) { + retval = -ENOMEM; + goto error; + } + + pdev->dev.parent = parent; + + if (size) { + retval = platform_device_add_data(pdev, data, size); + if (retval) + goto error; + } + + retval = platform_device_add(pdev); + if (retval) + goto error; + + return pdev; + +error: + platform_device_put(pdev); + return ERR_PTR(retval); +} + static int platform_drv_probe(struct device *_dev) { struct platform_driver *drv = to_platform_driver(_dev->driver); diff --git a/include/linux/platform_device.h b/include/linux/platform_device.h index 95ac21ab3a0..4b8cc6a3247 100644 --- a/include/linux/platform_device.h +++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ extern int platform_add_devices(struct platform_device **, int); extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(const char *, int id, struct resource *, unsigned int); +extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_data(struct device *, + const char *, int, const void *, size_t); extern struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc(const char *name, int id); extern int platform_device_add_resources(struct platform_device *pdev, struct resource *res, unsigned int num); |